Old DOS on topic yet?

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu Sep 25 20:07:10 2003

> The Poqet computer came out just over ten years ago. It used two memory
> cards that were PCMCIA, but before the official PCMCIA standard was
> developed. Does anybody know offhand exactly when the PCMCIA standard
> came about?
>
> PCMCIA = "People Can't memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"
>
> The Toshiba 1100, and the Atari Portfolio wer out about that time, and
> like the Poqet, they had versions of DOS in ROM. (The Portfolio was a
> wannabe, Toshiba and Poqet were MS-DOS)

The Amiga 1200 uses PCMCIA cards and was released in 1993.

                        Zane
Received on Thu Sep 25 2003 - 20:07:10 BST